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5/18/2020 2:57 PM
51Degrees expansion with ISO accreditations and all-new website
You know what they say about London buses? You wait all day for one to arrive, then three show up at once. Well, this is a bit like that, as we bring you a trio of exciting developments in the world of 51Degrees. Read this article to find out more.

3/30/2020 3:13 PM
Product Update: March 2020
In this blog we go through five new properties that have been added to our database as well as User-Agents for popular devices and device detection data file updates for March 2020

2/13/2020 3:13 PM
Response to CMA market study
Online platforms and digital advertising market study
The Competition and Markets Authority is carrying out a market study into online platforms and the digital advertising market in the UK.
2/6/2020 3:13 PM
Product Update: January
We've started 2020 with the release of our Beta Program, and this provides access to the latest version of device detection and our new Pipeline API.

1/30/2020 3:13 PM
Copy of 51Degrees second response to Chromium proposal
Chromium proposal: intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string

1/17/2020 3:13 PM
Copy of 51Degrees response to Chromium proposal
Chromium proposal: intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string
Over the past two weeks, we have sought evidence to justify this change. We have found none. None of the industry stakeholders we have spoken to were previously aware of the proposal. This means that the usual and necessary protocols of public review are lacking.

1/15/2020 3:13 PM
Client Hints: User Agent v2
Chromium proposal to use client hints in parallel with diminished User-Agent headers
Chromium – the web browser stewarded by Google - have announced a plan to diminish the role of the HTTP User-Agent header in future versions of Chromium during 2020. While the engineering arguments for the change make some sense, the replacement solution – client hints – is far from proven, and details remain unclear. The proposal is yet to be agreed, and is just that, a proposal.

11/20/2019 3:22 PM
Performance demand from AdTech industry prompts innovations

9/11/2019 3:00 PM
Apple announces the A13 Bionic chip and iPhone range
New iPhones, new innovative features, but only one feature stood out to us, the A13 Bionic Chip. Apple is claiming the new iPhone has the fastest CPU and GPU of any smartphone, let us see why.

9/3/2019 1:30 PM
GPU Benchmarking and Device Detection
How 51Degrees evaluated GPU micro benchmarking and why it's not viable today
51Degrees identify Apple iPhone and iPad models with over 99% accuracy. One of the techniques considered in the solution was GPU benchmarking. The technique showed promise but was not considered performant enough for production deployment.